However . . . we had pretty horrendous storms down here (AK's near Swindon, so if his ISP is anywhere close, that's only 15-25 miles away), with flooding and power-outs. We (Newbury) lost power for an hour yesterday evening, and some of the area was out when I left home this morning.

Apologies guys - you were all meant to be asleep scheduled maintenance from c. midnight to 4am by my technical guys, with some quite detailed restructuring of where things are in the datacenter...for some reason a number of servers didn't go back up again (they probably forgot to plug them in!)

Thanks to a member on here who texted me to let me know (our usual monitoring system tells me if a server goes down, but can't tell me if it fails to go up after a planned outage...)

amazingly not a single one of my paying clients seemed to notice that their websites weren't back up Talking of which I like the idea of doubling my fees - form an orderly queue over here...

for interest our servers are in a very robust and fail safe datacenter in Manchester - but this was probably human error!